Menu
Search
Main SiteGandhara ConnectionsVase Corpus (CVA Online)
Search

Back to photograph folder

8064, Cisterna di Latina, Caprifico

  • Record number: 8064
  • Site: Cisterna di Latina
  • Building or zone: Caprifico
  • Position: Eaves
  • Roof element: Antefixes, heads
  • Remarks: Antefix with female head, with long ovoid face and long neck; small almond-shaped eyes, set slightly obliquely, with thick lids in relief; long triangular nose, small mouth with full lips, slightly smiling. Hair in thin bands of waves running from forehead over crown of head, with central part, and looped in front of ears; below ears, 2 beaded tresses. Cover tile attached at eye level, with back of top of head deeply hollowed. Neck of antefix overhangs cover tile. Stolen from private collection in Italy in 1970. Present location unknown.
  • Bibliography: Melis & Quilici Gigli 1972, pp. 224-225, pl. L.5-7; Winter 2009a, p. 347, 5.C.2; Lulof in Palombi 2010, p. 45, G5, fig. 247
  • Publication record: Il tempio arcaico di Caprifico di Torrecchia (Cisterna di Latina): I materiali e il contesto. Author: Palombi, D. (ed.). Place of publication: Roma. Publication Date: 2010
    Proposta per l'ubicazione di Pometia. Author: Melis, F. & S. Quilici Gigli. Journal and volume number: ArchCl 24. Publication Date: 1972. Pages: 219-247
    Symbols of Wealth and Power: Architectural Terracotta Decoration in Etruria and Central Italy, 640-510 B.C.. Author: Winter, N.A.. Journal and volume number: MAAR Suppl. 9. Place of publication: Ann Arbor. Publication Date: 2009
  • Associated elements: Raking simas, lateral simas, revetment plaques, acroteria
  • Type of decoration: Female head
  • Last Recorded Collection: private collection
  • Mouldmade: Yes
  • Height: 20.3 ca.
  • Width: 12.5 ca.
  • Paint: Irises and hair painted dark brown, probably black; red on lips
  • Condition: Nearly complete; missing locks of hair below left ear

Link to this record using the address https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/D32F60F7-30BB-46EE-B7E8-24316ABAE5AF

My photograph albums
Site map Copyright Accessibility Privacy statement Contact us
Gandhara Connections
Gandhara Connections on Facebook
Gandhara Connections on Twitter
Back to top